Bill Text: CA AB306 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Amended

California Assembly Bill 306 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Elections: voter pamphlets.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Passed) 2009-08-06 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 98, Statutes of 2009. [AB306 Detail]

Download: California-2009-AB306-Amended.html

BILL NUMBER: AB 306	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 19, 2009

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Fuller

                        FEBRUARY 17, 2009

   An act to add Section  13318   9094.5 
to the Elections Code, relating to elections.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 306, as amended, Fuller. Elections:  sample ballots
  voter pamphlets . 
   Existing law requires the Secretary of State to prepare a state
ballot pamphlet and to disseminate the complete contents of the state
ballot pamphlet over the Internet. Existing law requires the
Secretary of State to mail ballot pamphlets to voters.  
   This bill would require the Secretary of State to establish a
process to allow voters to opt out of receiving the state ballot
pamphlet by mail.  
   Existing law requires that a local elections official prepare and
send a sample ballot to registered voters prior to the election.
 
   This bill would provide that a local elections official would not
send a sample ballot to a voter who has notified the local elections
official in writing that he or she declines to receive a sample
ballot for that election.  
   Because the bill would require the local elections official to
determine whether he or she has received this notice from a voter, it
would increase the duties of local elections officials, thereby
imposing a state-mandated local program.  
   The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local
agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.  
   This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates
determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state,
reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these
statutory provisions. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program:  yes   no  .


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   SECTION 1.    Section 9094.5 is added to the 
 Elections Code   , to read:  
   9094.5.  The Secretary of State shall establish a process to
enable a voter to opt out of receiving by mail the state ballot
pamphlet prepared pursuant to Section 9081. This process shall become
effective only after the Secretary of State certifies that the state
has a statewide voter registration database that complies with the
federal Help America Vote Act of 2002 (42 U.S.C. Sec. 15301 et seq.).
 
  SECTION 1.    Section 13318 is added to the
Elections Code, to read:
   13318.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a local
elections official shall not send a sample ballot to a registered
voter who has notified the official in writing 60 days, at a minimum,
prior to the election that he or she declines to receive a sample
ballot for that election.  
  SEC. 2.    If the Commission on State Mandates
determines that this act contains costs mandated by the state,
reimbursement to local agencies and school districts for those costs
shall be made pursuant to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of
Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code.